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The latter. They're not characters from existing stories, they just find out that they happen to live in a work of fiction.

Here's something to play with for the musically-inclined: An Alternate History Mockumentary that imagines an America with an orchestral music tradition that follows the New World Symphony, rather than Pop music.

An epidemic begins to break out where people are suffocating to death, or being trapped in their own homes immobilized. As a paramedic goes to investigate one of his family member's deaths, he finds out that there were spiders using his body as a breeding ground. The paramedic and his etymologist friend learn that these spiders are thinking like people, and invading their bodies while they sleep.

Convincing the rest of the world that there are spiders, with the minds of serial killers, attacking them in their sleep and living inside of them, is going to be a challenge. Soon, mass hysteria begins to break out, and the etymologist and paramedic have to find a way to protect themselves, and any they care about, from this new strand of body-invading spiders.

Quick clarification: Do you really mean "etymologist" (someone who studies the origin of words) or did you mean to say "entomologist" (someone who studies insects)?

(is that an XKCD joke?)

edited 7th Jan '15 10:10:12 PM by Ellowen

(Yup, those studiers and no not XKCD, but which one exactly?)

this one "Wrong Superhero"

I was talking to the person above my comment, because the strip has a mix up of the two.

edited 7th Jan '15 10:09:52 PM by Ellowen

No, I wasn't referring to the comic. I'm just that literal-minded.

But I have seen it before and it is clever.

Just bumping this for visibility.

Two slacker totally-not-stoner friends are given the order of walking a few blocks to the store for the groceries. They take a rather long shortcut. Through Achievements in Ignorance they get into a lot of problems and they don't even notice. Hilarity Ensues.

A buddy cop movie set in The '90s, two slackers become Sheriff Deputies in rural New Mexico. They must investigate:

• An attempt to smuggle guns south and drugs north.

• Several state troopers on the take.

• A disappearance of a college student and the deaths of her classmates.

• Strange lights in the sky.

edited 24th Jan '15 6:44:28 PM by TairaMai

• A secluded (and slightly cult-ish) New England town that were no one has aged since the 17th century. Outsiders (a brother and sister) pay a visit when their car breaks down and shit goes down.
  • I was planning on making this into a short story, but when I started researching real world cults, I realized they're essentially made of High Octane Nightmare Fuel. If that piques anyone's interest and they think they can do it justice, feel free to use it

• An adaptation of Romeo And Juliet [Recycled In Space taking place shortly before or during the Civil War. "Juliet" is the daughter of southern, wealthy plantation owners while "Romeo" is the son of Northern abolitionists.
  • I thought it could potentially be interesting, but didn't want to go through the extensive research it would require

WutheringHeights set in The '80s: LA, New York or London.

edited 27th Jan '15 8:52:26 PM by TairaMai

Edit: nevermind, this was a bad mistake posting.

edited 6th Feb '15 5:43:03 PM by ironcommando

A teenage girl who Came Back Wrong and now must fight demons and monster and conceal her "undeadishness" from the town.

Like Buffy The Vampire Slayer?

Sort of, she's a Revenant Zombie who has to collect "magic" to keep up the appearance of "living". And an easy source of magic? All those demons and evil critters attacking the town...

edited 7th Feb '15 8:18:39 AM by TairaMai

Harry Potter Alternate Universe Fic where Neville Longbottom is the Chosen One. Bonus points for taking it seriously.

This one may sound silly on the surface, but I think there's room to play with the character dynamics in a lot of interesting and profound ways.

Here's one idea I got from The Demolished Man:

What if the power to be a Magical Girl, magic user, telepath or super hero came at any age? One day you're a "latent" the next you have power!

But the power needs training...

So there's a group of five, ages 13 to 37 that are in a Superhero School and trying to learn how to use their powers.

edited 11th Feb '15 7:19:36 PM by TairaMai

There's that one 8bit video game idea with the future school, where the student body starts getting sick and dying out of the blue. You chase your genius friend (who is also dying) into a back room where she shows you a time machine she worked on and writes you instructions to go back in time and keep the school from being diseased before she kicks the bucket. Sadly though.. her handwriting is near illegible, so you have to figure out what happened on your own. There's a weird sidequest that comes up ever so often where you play as someone else and try to find your missing newly-psychic friend.. It doesn't make much sense until the end where the two timelines collide and everything comes together like a weird puzzle. (I don't know, it sounded better in my head ) Then there's the one with the San Francisco Aliens and the one with the crappy superhero school.

I'm looking to collaborate (read: give away) a plot and characters to someone who would be interested in writing about them. I have the entire plot in my head, but given a new project that I am really interested in working on, I am not sure if I will even have time to work on this. Plus it'll finally get me to leave this idea alone once and for all, or at least not keep obsessing over something that I know I won't be playing with that much.

The plot: Takes place in a boarding school on an island city state where a girl named Ani (I have written about her here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=4xx9kv6b8vypu2ss6scbz8z2&page=2) becomes entangled in an underground school food fight that has been going on for more than 20 years.

If you're interested feel free to get back to me and I can provide a list of characters and a general synopsis (yes, I have one written, and it's kind of long...bleeeh).

A parody metal band called "Deathecation."

A robot gets an artificial tongue installed and becomes addicted to the taste of food.

A high school where the only way to graduate is by killing others. Might use this one.

Has this one been done?

Shy modest ordinary schoolgirl whose "Magical Girl" abilities are powered by Male Gaze. Unfortunately the demons she fights are immune to her charms so as the difficulty level escalates, so does her level of public nudity. The press are her unwitting allies because whatever it is that's going on obviously requires real time presentation on all channels.

By the time her mask is the majority of her costume, she's finding herself increasing addicted to the power rush, especially the extra push she gets from her schoolgirl best friend. So it's not that big of a surprise to the audience at least when The Devil gives the I am your grandfather, now take your slain mother's place speech.